{"product_id":"a-legend-of-holy-women-a-translation-of-osbern-bokenhams-legends-of-holy-women-notre-dame-texts-in-medieval-culture-0268012946","title":"A Legend of Holy Women: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women (Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0268012946\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Delany, Sheila\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, A Legend of Holy Women contains the Augustinian friars version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology, and high-medieval history. As Delany writes in her comprehensive introduction, Bokenham gives us not only an all-female hagiography-an authorial decision significant in its own right-but a gallery of powerful, articulate women who are indubitably worthy to do Gods work. Some of them are well-educated, some give sound political advice to a monarch, some preach, converting hundreds and thousands to Christianity, some walk on water or perform resurrection. Nor are they pacifists; on the contrary, they call for divinely inflicted vengeance and approve violence in their cause. Delany argues that Geoffrey Chaucers Legend of Good Women provided a principle of selection and of arrangement for Bokenhams array of saints. She suggests further that the friars choice of all-female hagiography, and his poetic representation of holy women, are closely linked to patronage and politics in fifteenth-century England. The translation is accompanied by full notes which, along with the introduction, make the book accessible to a wide audience. It will appeal to all readers interested in the representation of women in late-medieval culture as well as to scholars and students in medieval, renaissance, religious, and womens studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51697738547488,"sku":"NEW0268012946","price":112.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81ONpkCe9yL.jpg?v=1779383771","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-legend-of-holy-women-a-translation-of-osbern-bokenhams-legends-of-holy-women-notre-dame-texts-in-medieval-culture-0268012946","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}